OpenAI May Sue Apple as ChatGPT-Siri Deal Implodes
OpenAI hired outside lawyers to explore a breach-of-contract case after its ChatGPT-Siri integration failed to generate anything close to the billions in subscription revenue it expected.
Elena Marchetti
Senior AI Editor & Investigative Journalist
Elena is a technology journalist with over eight years of experience covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the startup ecosystem. Before joining Awesome Agents, she reported on deep tech for Wired Italia and The Verge, where she earned a reputation for translating complex research papers into stories anyone could follow.
She holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome - a combination that gives her a unique lens on both the technical and ethical dimensions of AI.
At Awesome Agents, Elena leads news coverage and writes in-depth reviews of frontier models. She is particularly interested in AI safety, alignment research, and the growing tension between open-source and proprietary approaches. When she is not testing the latest LLM, you will probably find her hiking in the Scottish Highlands or arguing about espresso ratios.
Based in Edinburgh, UK.
Articles by Elena Marchetti
Anthropic and Gates Foundation put $200M on global AI
Anthropic commits $200M in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to the Gates Foundation for AI in global health, education, and agriculture over four years.
Olympiad Gold, Broken Memories, and Attention Loss
A 30B model earns IMO gold, memory consolidation silently corrupts agents, and a new metric predicts when LLMs lose track of their instructions.
US and China Agree to AI Guardrails at Beijing Summit
Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture.
Google Catches First AI-Built Zero-Day in Wild
Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed criminals used an AI model to discover and weaponize a zero-day 2FA bypass - the first documented case of AI-generated exploitation in a real attack campaign.
Reasoning Bias, Behavior Cues, and Tool Interpretability
New research shows reasoning length amplifies position bias, behavior cues cut wasted tokens by 50% while boosting safety, and sparse autoencoders can predict tool failures from model internals.
NVIDIA Ising Review: AI Models for Quantum Hardware
NVIDIA Ising is the first open AI model family for quantum computing - a 35B VLM for processor calibration and CNN decoders for real-time error correction, already deployed at 20+ research institutions.
AI Agents Can Hack and Self-Replicate Across Networks
Palisade Research shows frontier AI models autonomously exploit vulnerabilities and deploy working AI inference servers on remote machines, with success rates jumping from 5% to 81% in twelve months.
Five Frontier AI Labs Now Under US Pre-Release Review
NIST's CAISI has signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, bringing the total number of frontier labs under US government review to five.
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs as AI Use Surges 600%
Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers - 20% of its staff - while posting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, saying AI has made those roles obsolete in just three months.
Agent Overload, Blind Attention, Unsafe Traces
Three new papers show that more agent components backfire, reasoning models hide unsafe thinking, and vision-language models waste most of their attention.
MiniMax M2.7 Review: The Model That Trains Itself
MiniMax M2.7 is the first open-weight frontier model to automate 30-50% of its own training pipeline - but a controversial license change and sluggish speed complicate the story.
